PERSECUTION UP COUNTRY.
BISHOP VALTORTA'S TERRIBLE REVELATIONS.
MURDER AND TORTURING BY REDS.
BISHOP. VERSIGLIA'S
FUNERAL.
The Right Reverend Bishop Valtorta returned to Hong Kong yesterday from Shiukwan, when he attended the funeral of Bishop Versiglia and Father Caravario, the victims of a brutal bandit out rage, on February 24 in the Ying tak district.
PRESENTATION TO MR. F. R. MARSH.
TOKEN FROM " HONG KONG ELECTRIC STAFF.
ACTIVE INTEREST IN WELFARE WORK,
The local staff of the Hong Kong Electric Company yesterday made a presentation to Mr. F.-R. Marsh, MIE.E., manager of the Company, on the occasion of his impending departure, for England where, it is understood, he will take up the post of the Company's Consulting Engineer and London Represents
tive.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1930.
OPIUM HIDDEN IN ATTEMPTED ARSON. POMPEII AND
A WINDOW.
400 TAELS FOUND IN HOLLOW PANELS.
WOMAN CHARGED IN COURT.
CHINESE YOUTH, ARRESTED.
FIVE CASES REPORTED.
In connection with the attempted arson at various addresses in Hong Kong and Kowloon, reported in our columns yesterday, the Police authorities have detained a Chinese youth who is believed to be impli. cated in some way,
HERCULANEUM.
STORY OF A VOLCANIC TRAGEDY.
PROF. BROWN'S LECTURE AT THE UNIVERSITY.
Professor W. Brawh gave a most interesting lecture to the Education Society of the University last night on "Pompoil the resurrected city." He began with a description of the nature of volcanoes and their ac
At a raid carried out by Revenue Officers on '63, Pokfulam Road, on Sunday, where a quantity of illicit opium was found, a Chinese woman was alleged to have admitted that she was the principal tenant of the
"Five different outbreaks of fire premises. A denial of this state-
were reported over the week-end ment was made to Mr. R. E. Lind- sell at the Ceatral Magistracy at No. 30 Stanley Street, No. yesterday when the woman was D'Aguilar Street, No. 179 Reclamation. A volcanic eruption was, he charged with possession of the tion Street, No. 286 Shanghai
His Lordship informed our repre-
drug. Mr. Horace Lo defended the Street and No. 4 Portland Street. In every case the fire was discover sentative that a most impressive
woman.
Revenue Officer Grimmitt saided before say great damage "was funeral service was held on Thurs- day. "The long procession through
that altogether 410 taels of pre- done. pared non Government opium. The Police set a close watch in the streets of Shiukwan was follow
worth $4,620, were found at the various districts, and eventually' a ed by large numbers of Chinese Christians, and the whole com Hong Kong Electric Company said premises in question. Two packets, Chinese detective made an arrest forty miles down the temperature munity was deeply moved by the that during Mr. Marsh's, period of ench containing about 10 one-tal in Taumati. He saw a youth mov. exeat. The Chinese community office the capacity of their plant tias, were found in a corner searing about suspiciously in the dark but they were prevented from knew that these two men End given increased from 5,000 K.W. to 93,000/ the versadah. Two sides of a re- and stopped him. His hands and lignifying by the pressure above their lives in defence of three K. W., and the gross profits from Chinese women, and though an net about 7 lakhs to nearly 9 million
Mr. Marsh has been connected with the Company for the past sight years, and commenting on the part played by him in the development of the Company, the Chairman at the last annual meeting of the
of self-sacrifice of that nature is a dollars. new idea to many up-country Chi- nese, there is no doubt as to the deep-impression created and the genuine respect and admiration felt for the two murdered missionaries.
Special Mass was celebrated at the Chapel of Selesian Mission Industrial School, by the Right Reverend Bishop Fourguet, assisted by Bishops Valtorta, Walsh and Nunes. After the procession, the burial took place in the chapel.
Among those present were the Civil Prefeet of Shiukwan, Mr. J. Tang, Secretary to General Chen "Ming Shu, Civil Governor of Canton, whom he represented and a number of military officers. Pro fessor Wu, of the Chung Shan
ago
Mr. Marsh has taken a great interested in the welfare of the Local Staff and in the Local Staff Association, which aims at the pro- motion of athletic and social ae- tivities among its members. The presentation yesterday was from the members of this Association and took the form of a travelling clock. The address, read by an old member of the staff, Mr. C. G. Silva, was AS follows:›
under you we
Str. The members of the local staff of the Hong Kong Electric Co., Ltd., wish on the occasion of University was also present.,
your approaching retirement from The Chinese authorities have in give expression to
the service of the Company, to our fecings stituted a thorough search for the towards you. During the period bandits and two more arrests, be of our service sides the arrest reported some days have always, felt that you took, a have since been effected. personal interest in our welfare and These prisoners have been un-that our dificulties and our enden. hesitatingly recognised by the threevours to improve ourselves have had sisters as members of the bandit your sympathetic consideration and party who held them up:
encouragement. We wish you to know that your attitude towards us has made it a matter not only of pleasure but also justifiable pride for us to serve this Company conscien- tiouely and to the best of our ability.
Twenty-six Prlesta Killed In Six Years.
Discussing the trouble condition of the neighbouring provinces of China at the present moment, his Lordship said that the district of
We shall rememer you, too, for Haifong, in particular, was in a your active personal interest, as very bad state. Communistic rule patron of the Hong Kong Electric being unchallenged by the small Local Staff Association, which made number of Government troops left possible the extension of our ac- to guard the city. The Chinese tivities of Sport and Recreation." Christians were subject to constant Our regret at your departure is persecution and threate, two being tempered by the thought that you recently tortured. and eventually leave us in order to enjoy a hard beheaded by the Red" leaders learned rest and boliday.
for advocating the Christian
As a tangible evidence of our faith." Long letters describing this loyal feelinge towards you, we now persecution and the frequent looting ask you to accept this clock, hoping of the missions were being received that the passage of time will con- from the priests in that district, tinue to bring you happiness and where not a week passed without an prosperity. attack by these gangs. Moreover, Mr. Marsh thanked the members there was no sign of the Com-of the local staff for their present munists being quelled. The civil which, he said, he will treasure as wars had drawn all troops from the a memento of his connection with country leaving it to the oerey of them. He had been struck with their the Reds and..bandita.
keenness and loyalty in the exrcu- Within the last six years, said tion of their duties and it had been his Lordship, twentysix Romana pleasure to work with them. 'Catholic priests had been murdered in South Ching alone. Of these all were Europeans, except two Chinicae priests.
In the last eleven months'eight priests, and two Bishops had been murdered.
"These priests who sent into the interior, concluded his Lord- ship, must prepare themselves to face the worst, for there is no saying what will happen in the unprotected districts."
NEW BARRISTER FOR
HONG KONG.
MR. YEW KOK LEONG ENROLLED.
An application for the admission of Mr. Yew Kok Leong,, alias Mr. Further Ontragon by Bandits. Loong Yew Kow, LL.D., B.Sc., to Yesterday information was re- practise da à barrister of the Sap ceived in the Colony by the local reme Court was made yesterday by French Mission, that Father Croc the Attorney General (Sir Joseph who was in charge of the Mission Etrangeres at Taipingiu, had been Kemp, K.C., C.B.E.) before the captured by bandits on February 20. Chief Justice, Sir Henry Gollan. The message stated that Father Crocq was seized by the Com. munists and his mission house burnt. They carried their captive to a place called Sheung, Chui, half way between Taiping and Lungchow where he was tortured. No further messages had been received but the Mission are doing all they can to effect Father Crocq's rescue,
The news of a second outrage by bandits at Namong, near Nanning, has been received by the French mission and Rev. Father Caysac who was in charge of the mission there has been taken captive." .. Naval Message Conarms the News
A naval wireless message confirms the story of. Father Crocq e capture, it 'states:-
The Attorney General said that Mr. Leong Yew. Kok was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple on January 26, 1021. Mr. Leong was then admitted and enrolled by the Supreme Court of the Federated Malay State on October 31, 1921, where he had been in practice since that date.
rolment, his Lordship wished Mr.
In granting the admission and en Loong every success in his pro fession.
SAMPAN WOMAN'S VISIT TO STONECUTTERS',
HAVING A LOOK AT THE - RIFLE RANGE,
gently renovated window frame in the rear cubicle were found to have hollow panels and when these were opened 400 tae's of prepared opium were discovered. Revenue Officer Grimmitt added that it was then "that defendant had claimed to be the principai tenant of the house. This was challenged by Mr. Lo. landlord of 65, Pokfulam Road, His Worship suggested that the should be called to give evidence as to who was the principal tenant of the house. The case was accord- ingly adjourned until 1030 to-mor row morning
clothing reeked with kerosene and in his pocket was found a piece of paper twisted into spill. He was taken to Yaumati Police Station, where he was identified as a youth, who had been seen earlier in the evening, near, the address in Stan- ley Street, where are had broken
out.
the attention of the Police to this It was alleged that he had drawn are, and had brought to them a small cigarette tin filled with kero sene which he said he had picked up at the bottom of the stair case.
The origin of the fires may be, only thoughtless mischief on the part of this boy, but it is suggested that he may have been understhe influence of older people, who in SOLICITOR COMPLAINS OF A cited bim to arson for some poli-
tical reason.
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KOWLOON TRAFFIC
CASES.
SUMMONS.
Mr. J. M. Remedios appeared before Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith at Kowloon Magistracy yesterday afternoon on behalf of Mr. C. H. Basto, of Messrs. Little Adams & Wood, who was summoned for wrongfully parking his car in Salis bury Road. Sergeant Clarke was responsible for the summons.
Mr. Remedios in pleading not; guilty, said that Mr. Basto was not driving the car at the time of the alleged offence. The driver who had been employed by him at that time had since disappeared. It appears that the driver's license had been cancelled by the police Mr. Remedios remarked that the Trafic Department were aware be lore the sunumors was issued that the particular vehicle was not driven by Mr. Basto but they had not taken this into consideration, before troubling his client who was a very busy man. It was a very unpleasant thing for Mr. Basto to appear in answer to a summons which for something for which he was not responsible...
Sergeant Clarke said that he did not know who owned the car or who the driver was, He saw the car parked in Salisbury Road "op. posite the Godown Company and it was left for a considerable time.
KOWLOON FLATS BURGLED.
THREE ROBBERIES IN A NIGHT.
Three European residences in Wing Lak Buildings, Nathan Road, were burgled by, apparently, one person during Sunday-Monday niglit. He secured over $200 and
a number of valuables.
Lieut. P. W. Humphreys, R.N., of 8, Wing Lok Buildings, top floor, reported that between 2 and 7 a.. a person entered his bed room by an open, window, and stele from the dressing table a lady's leather purse, containing $8 in money and also 90 in bank notes and $10 in silver.
.Mrs. W. W. Hirst reports that her house at 6, Wing.Lok Building, was entered at about 4.46 am. She found & thief in the act of
said, one of the most dramatic sad: inspiring of nature's demonstra- tions, Volcanoes offered the most direct evidence that the centre of the earth was het, but contrary to popular belief the centre of the earth was not fluid. Thirty or
was high enough to melt any rocks,'
them.
If the earth's crust was cracked the crack ran down and the pressure over a certain spot was
removed. The rocks then melted and boiled up and the result was a volcano. The lecturer explained how volcanic disturbances affected the level of the sea-bed and anid that the Pacific, the youngest of the
of formation, had a complete ring oceans, which was still in process
of volcanoes round it.
Two Sorts of Volcanoes.
There were two sorts of volcanoes ; those which were open and alive: and those which were choked and closed or "extinct" but suddenly blew up like a bursting boiler Until 76 A.D. there was no record of Vesuvius having erupted and the people did not know it was a volcano. But on August 24 of that year, owing to the explosive force of immense quantities of steam. generated in the earth below the mountain, there was a violent ex- plosion and the accumulation of cinders and rock which had choked the funnel of Vesurius were blown aut and high up into the sky.. The steam, as it was driven up into the air with the dust and powdered fragments from the mouth of the volcano, condensed into rain, which in falling carried with it the dust which fell on Herculaneum in the form of mud, subsequently hardening into a sort of concrete and completely sealing up the city. Pompeii was buried under many feet of dust, which though it had hardened with time had proved comparatively easy to excavate.
It was at 1 p.m. on August 24, 20 A.D., that the trouble at Pom- peli began. Pliny the elder, who escaping through the bathroom was in charge of the Roman
window.
On investigating, Mrs. Hirst squadron at anchor in the Bay," found that the thief had taken 60 went to investigate the strange He' instructed the Indian constable cents in money and a bunch of phenomena of the eruption, and
keys.
on point duty to take the license of the driver, and get a description of the driver-which incidentally, tallied with that of Mr. Basto.
Mr. Basto replied that the Hong Kong A.A. watchman had been questioned and had informed - the, police that the driver was a Chi- well that it was not Le. Further- nese, and therefore they knew quite more, the police knew that the driver had absconded.
did not think it a very great hard- His Worship remarked that he ship for an' owner to come and given evidence in a cass which con- cerned his car. It was; in fact, a public duty.
1
Building, found that a
Mrs. Schaer of 1, Wing Lok while ashore was overcome by the pair of poisonous gases let loose, and kill. trousers had been stolen containing ed. peso notes and a white metal watch embodied by Tacitus in his history It was his nephew's léttor,
and chain. The total value was
which gave us so detailed on ac- given as 850.
count of the disaster.
COUNTERFEIT COINS.
OLD WOMAN AND YOUTH
SENT TO PRISON.
Pompell of To-day.
A large number of alides were thrown од the screen showing Pompeii as it appears today-- some 20 feet of mud having been removed. Pictures were shown of An old woman and a youth were the straight paved roads with their Mr. Remedios agreed, but re- before Mr. . E. Lindsell yesterday marked that Mr. Basto, should on charges of being found to be footpaths and street fountains, of have been asked to come and ex-in possession of counterfeit coins. the arches, amphitheatres, theatres been summoned and named as the Connaught Road West by a Chinese plain the matter, and not have They were searched and arrested at and forum. Of particular interest defendant, He suggested that his constable over the week-end.
were the delightful Roman villas, more certain of their facts before how they came into possession of pictures of modern conceptions of Worship warn traffic officers to be When pressed for a reason as to some partially restored, and the issuing a summons.
over 810 worth of falso 10 cent, pieces, the youth declared that he what the completed building must was hired by the old woman to have been like. carry them. His Worship said auch a thing was unheard of whereupon defendant changed his story and said he was engaged to carry a basket but a puree containing money was handed to him instead.
The summons was dismissed, and the trouble caused him, an apology made to Bir. Basto, for
Speedy Lorry,
A lorry driver was fined $20 for speeding along Prince Edward Road at 20 mi.p.b. His speed limit was only 12 miles per hour.,
Professor Brown's lucid explana- tions made the fragments of the old pleasure city come to life, so that his audience..could see, in imagination, the life of the place. There were also pictures of the ordinary articles of domestic use, showing the fineness of workman- ship and the ingenuity of these
The old woman told the magis trate that she picked up a packet of money on the road but did not They discovered the woman still know that the coins were counter-classical craftsmen. roaming about and were able to feit. She remarked that she would 'In conclusion Professor Brown ascertain from her that she was never again do such a thing. She remarked on the discoveries at. Leong Ngan, 57 years old, who banded the coins to the first defen- Herculaneum, which were expected had been living in a sumpan ply dant but could not explain the to be oven more wonderful than ing for hire it the harbour. She reason for doing, som
those at Pompeii Work there was brought to the station and it Mr. Lindsell disbelieved both de | had only just begun, but' in ter
Information has been received to the effect that an American Mia- sionary arrived at Wuchow few The miltary authorities at days ago. He stated that the con- Stonecutters had a strange visitor ditions in Kwanga were very bad, on the island yesterday in a Chin- as everyone was looting. He recae woman who kept on wondering ported that Father Crocq of Tai- around the ride range. Water pinglu had been captured by police officers went to investigate bandits..
affer receiving a report by tele the Mental Hospital. The doctor four months and two months' hard hear a much better lecture on The situation at Wuchow is phone,
in charge certified her to ho in-labour on the youth and old woman Herculaneum than he had been (Continued at foot of next column). I ́sane,
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